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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Ways to improve your workplace wellbeing

Photo: Linda Levesque

Linda Levesque, Vice President, Corporate Benefits at Unum writes, "Promoting wellbeing in the
workplace benefits both employers and employees. A healthy employee is
likely to take fewer sick days and be more productive, loyal and
committed, knowing that their wellbeing is important to their employer.
In short, investing in wellbeing pays back through better productivity
and retention, and lower sickness absence costs."

Creating an effective wellbeing strategy is an important component in becoming that employer of choice.

Here are five simple ways of improving staff wellbeing that you can start today.

Be a jargon busterBetter informed employees are happier employees. Think about holding
drop-in sessions for staff so they can ask questions about things like
their pension, how to read their pay slip and what different employee
benefits entitle them to.

Stand up moreAccording to experts, standing up in the workplace for at least three
hours a day has the same benefits as competing in 10 marathons each
year. One way to do this could be installing chest-level high tables in
an area of the office for working and meetingsRead more...

Your Ultimate Wellbeing Toolkit offers a step-by-step guide for putting people at the heart of your company.

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Hello, my name is Helge Scherlund and I am the Education Editor and Online Educator of this personal weblog and the founder of eLearning • Computer-Mediated Communication Center.
I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.